Thursday, 28 March 2024

Balanced Scorecard for the Best Macroeconomic Regulator Awards

Central banks and regulators are assessed and benchmarkedon the role that they play in maintaining financial stability. Central banks use risk management, monetary analysis and liquidity management as the core tools to ensure macroeconomic financial stability. These combined with other indicators such as their perception among domestic banks and businesses, level of international co-ordination and the level of technology and operations can help assess regulators of this kind.

Evaluating Dimension Weightage (%)
1. Market intervention capability 20
  Frequency and impact of interest rate intervention
  Effectiveness of price stability measures taken
  Effectiveness of open market operations
  Ease of collection of data for market activity, transaction prices & counterparty exposures for market participants
2. Liquidity Management 20
  Types of liquidity tools used
  Effectiveness in the past 2 months
3. Independence and governance structure 15
4. Degree of International co-ordination 15
  Senior representation in international forums such as the G20 and BCBS.
5. Technology and Operations 15
  Level of automation in treasury operations
  Level of automation in business processes
  Level of automation in clearing and settlement
6. Quality and consistency of reports 10
  No. of different types of reports [ more variety higher score]
  Frequency of each report [ higher frequency-higher score]
  Comprehensiveness in topics covered
  Usability of data
  Availability and ease of use online
  Annual report- level of comprehensiveness (policies explained, boxed case studies etc.)
  Size of recent investment in technology
  Level of automation in treasury operations
7. Perception of domestic banks and businesses 5
  "They may not like you, but do they respect you?"
  Final Score 100